People think that they know the hardships black people go through, but they really don't. We walk into stores and have cops following us because they think that we do not have any money and that we are going to steal. Most of us have jobs. We work for our money and we go to spend it, but security still follows us throughout stores.
Another struggle with being Black is getting pulled over by cops when we did not do anything wrong. There have been so many different cases throughout history where a white cop pulls over a black civilian and tries to pin all these different charges on them that do not even apply. Then when the black people get locked up, some cops want to try and kill us and it make it look like a suicide. And that is just not right.
We walk out of homes everyday praying and hoping that we make it back to see our children and families. We pray that kids make it home everyday. Everyday you see a new news story about another black person being killed by a white officer.
In these stories, the cop did it for no reason but the police department will suspend the officer without pay or at best will charge them with manslaughter and maybe get 2-3 years in prison. That isn't enough. These black people that are being killed have children. They have families. Then family members of the murder victims have to try and explain to their children why their mom or dad is not coming back home.
Now the recent headline is that the U.S Government ruled that it is legal for us to be turned down for a job because of the dreadlocks hairstyle. Like no what matter what our credentials are, what experience or degrees we have, if we have dreadlocks, it is okay for us to be turned down for a job and that is not right.
No matter what hairstyle, it should not define us or who we are. And for the people in the U.S Government who just decided that that was okay need to step down from office. We work very hard in school to get our bachelor's , master's , and doctorate degrees. If we have the credentials, the experience and the best fit for the job, we deserve that job. Otherwise, it is discrimination.
We all need to take a better stand for what we believe in whether it's by writing articles like I do, writing letters to leaders and government officials, making posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Whatever it is, we need to make our voices heard or we will never get out of loophole history keeps repeating.
